LONDON, 19 October 2018 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest today on CNBC TV-18, India's leading financial news channel.Speaking by phone from London, Adrian said now looks a good time to start accumulating gold ahead of the financial and political risks 2019 will bring.The current move higher in gold prices has been led, he went on, by formerly bearish hedge-fund traders cl...Read More
A free tool can help traders bank big this earnings season.Financial stocks (JPM, C, and WFC) kicked off earnings season on Friday, and traders need to position themselves now in order to ensure maximum profit from it.One company can help any investor do just that.They've developed a tool that predicts volatility based on earnings announcements.The tool works on select stocks with a 77.6% accuracy...Read More
(Adds comment from Chinese commerce ministry)By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nerijus AdomaitisWASHINGTON/OSLO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States isrequesting that a World Trade Organization dispute resolutionpanel get involved in a clash over international retaliationover U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium, according to a U.S.official familiar with the matter.The requests, filed on Thursday, cover tar...Read More
Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More
- Do you own gold in the safest way possible?- Do you own gold via an exchange traded fund, a digital gold provider or another form of pooled gold?- Have you ever thought about how you would sell or access your gold if the internet went down or if your gold provider became compromised or un-contactable?- In this episode of the Goldnomics Podcast, we discuss how Direct Access Gold ensures liqu...Read More
This could soon be the backbone of America's electrical grid.What would the perfect mining stock for this market look like?First, it would be an incredibly rare element... one with limited supply.Second, it would be an element now under the radar... but about to break out with predictable demand.Third, there should be a company working toward a virtual monopoly on this element...And these three th...Read More
Gold rebounds from 3-day lows but fails to break above $1,230/oz. Yellow metal receives support from lower US yields amid risk aversion. Gold climbed from $1,218/oz and peaked at $1,230 during the US session but found resistance and pulled back. As of writing was trading around $1,225 away from the highs but still on positive ground for the day. The metal continues to move in a conso...Read More
Get ready for an influx of pot stock profits.On October 17th, marijuana will be 100% legal in Canada.That's sparking a new wave of IPOs. And shares could surge 501% - 1,364% in the coming weeks - just like the recent weed stock IPOs.One investor's research has uncovered a secret way to access red hot IPO shares.Click here right now for details on this urgent trading situation.Canada is the first c...Read More
Buyers have been bidding up gold to higher values over the last two days, although you would never would that by looking at the net change in prices. Renewed and elevated concern over the trade dispute that is now being labeled as a trade war between the United States and China has continued to be highly supportive of the U.S. dollar. Geopolitical concerns about Saudi Arabia, concerning the disapp...Read More
Caterpillar weighed on the Dow after a broadly negative session in ShanghaiU.S. stocks closed sharply lower in today's trading, extending the prior session's late-day Fed jitters. Heavy losses for Chinese stocks prompted weakness in big names like Caterpillar (CAT), which weighed on the Dow. And while the VIX snapped its four-day string of declines, the S&P 500 showed some resilience, battling bac...Read More
Susan Heavey, Sofia MenchuWASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border on Thursday as Hondurans and Salvadorans joined thousands of migrants in Guatemala hoping to travel north.“I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs economists on Thursday said the firm remained “comfortable” with its call for five more interest rate hikes — two more than priced in financial markets — through the end of 2019.In a note to clients, Goldman said it feels the Federal Reserve needs to generate a significant tightening in financial conditions to slow the economy to its poten...Read More
(Kitco News) - A trifecta of factors will keep gold prices higher for the rest of the year, according to one gold bull.“Last week, the macro backdrop produced an ideal cocktail for gold spot prices. The dollar was down, U.S. real rates were down, and U.S. equities were down. This ‘sweet’ triptych elicited a strong increase in monetary demand for gold, evident in positive ETF inve...Read More
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) will not send any of its executives to a Saudi investment conference next week, Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.“I was not planning to go and we had no senior executives going to the conference,” he said. “Dina Powell had been planning to go to the conference. She will not now be attending...Read More
CAT, MCD, VZ, MSFT, and TWTR will also step up to the earnings plateIt's a busy week ahead, with another round of housing data and the third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) estimate on tap.Earnings season is full speed ahead, with several big names reporting, including Dow members Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), McDonald's Corp (NYSE:MCD), and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), as well as...Read More
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Argentina's peso closed slightly weaker on Thursday after the central bank sold another round of short-term debt with high interest rates.The peso was down 1.12 percent at 36.65 per U.S. dollar, traders said. It has fallen 1.77 percent in the last two days. So far in 2018, the peso has depreciated 49.11 percent.Earlier on Thursday, the central bank sold 152.373 bil...Read More
The shares fell to six-year lows after a handful of price-target cutsSubscribers to Schaeffer's Weekend Trader Series service just scored a 100% profit in five weeks with the Invesco Ltd. (NYSE:IVZ) January 2019 26-strike put . Below, we're going to take a look back at why we were bearish on the investment management concern, and how IVZ performed after we suggested the put option. When we ente...Read More
After several months during which gold moved almost entirely in reverse fashion to the dollar, ignoring other developments and barely acting as the haven asset it’s considered to be, this dynamic may be changing. Demand for the yellow metal seems to be picking up amid broader uncertainty in markets, evident by bullion prices remaining resilient lately even in the face of a soaring dollar. Wh...Read More
Steve Holland, Bulent UstaWASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The top U.S. diplomat advised President Donald Trump on Thursday to give Saudi Arabia more time to investigate journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance even as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin abandoned plans to attend an investor conference in Riyadh, putting the high-profile event in question.In Istanbul, Turkish investigators fo...Read More
Sector peer Proteostasis Therapeutics, on the other hand, is up over 300% todayProteostasis Therapeutics (PTI) scored a big win after reporting positive data for its cystic fibrosis drug in an early stage study. In response, sector peer Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTX) is lower today, down 3.5% to trade at $179.02, at last check. Options traders are hitting overdrive on Vertex today, w...Read More